The funeral on Friday will be held at the Parisian Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde, in accordance with the wishes of the deceased, her daughter Claude Chirac told AFP. Bernadette and Jacques Chirac were married in the nearby Sainte-Clotilde chapel, where the funeral of the couple's eldest daughter, Laurence, was also held in 2016. Read moreBernadette Chirac, widow of former French president, dies at 93 A tribute will also be paid to the former first lady on Sunday in Corrèze, where she served as a general councilor for several decades. The tribute will begin with a religious ceremony at 10am in the town of Corrèze followed by a "friendly gathering and moment of remembrance" at 2pm at the Domaine de Sédières, open to "all the people of Corrèze, so dear to her heart", her daughter said. First Lady Brigitte Macron, who succeeded Bernadette Chirac as head of the Fondation des Hôpitaux (Yellow Coins Foundation), will be present at the funeral, as will former president Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla alongside numerous former political allies, prominent figures and friends. For more than half a century, Chirac was the fixed point in her late husband’s restless climb – through parliament, two terms as prime minister, 18 years as mayor of Paris and, in 1995, the presidency. The Chanel suits, dark glasses, nasal voice and withering judgments became part of her iconic national image. Beneath them was a relentless worker and a cold-eyed political operator who, almost alone among the wives of French presidents, built a base of power that was her own.